Dynamic Sounds Orchestra – Take Me Back / All I Wanna Do Is Love You 45 (Soul Junction) 7″ Vinyl

The Dynamic Sounds Orchestra where a nine piece ensemble featuring members Norwood Gray Jr (Bass), Clifford Conley (Guitar), Ronald Scott (Keyboards), Dennis Howell (Drums), Otis Gould (Conga Drums and Percussion) as well as a brass section that featured Charles Carter (Trombone), Milton Thomas (Soprano and Tenor Saxophone), Louis Minter (Alto Saxophone) and the late Kevin Thompson (Trumpet).

The Dynamic Sounds Orchestra became the backing and touring band for one of the windy city’s most famous soul groups, The Chi-lites, from early 1972. Several different permutations of the DSO continued to compliment the vocal talents of Marshall Thompson, Robert ‘Squirrel’ Lester, Creadel ‘Red’ Jones and Eugene Record as well as other Chi-Lites performers up until 1978. When Eugene left to pursue a solo career in 1976, some of the members of the DSO also followed him to Warner Brothers and feature on the three albums that he recorded there. Eugene also produced an album for former ‘Lost Generation member Lorrell Simon entitled “Mellow, Mellow, Right On” again with musical accompaniment provided by members of the DSO.

When Eugene Record later return to the Chi-lites line up he again called on the DSO to provide the orchestration on the 1982 Chi-Sound album project “Me And You” which featured the popular 12”/7”single release “Hot On A Thing (Called Love)”, a US R&B number 15 chart entry.

During 1976 the DSO using some of their earnings from their time with the Chi-Lites embarked upon an album project of their own although they never quite finished the project with a subsequently house fire destroying the master tapes.  The band later disbanded, but still remained in contact while following their, own lives. Percussionist Otis Gould now married and living and teaching in Atlanta, Georgia, would later find a cassette of some of the recorded mixes of the lost DSO album. This aroused Otis’s interest in the DSO’s past and he set about mastering the tracks, which led him to eventually release this forgotten album on several internet based outlets.

Through one of Soul Junction’s Chicago A&R contacts, this project was brought to our attention and two subsequent DSO tracks were licensed, so before you, you have the uplifting dance track “Take Me Back” backed with the excellent sweet soul ballad “All I Wanna Do Is Love You” both finally gaining a vinyl release its intended format at the time of its conception.- Soul Junction